18 LESSONS IN AGRICULTURE 



equipments, would save the farmer many dollars and 

 much time in the repairing of his implements and 

 buildings. This same workshop might be provided with 

 apparatus for seed-testing, fruit-tree pruning and graft- 

 ing, soil testing and analyzing, and with various chemi- 

 cals and apparatus used in experimental work with 

 plants and animals. 



A room so equipped on every farm would furnish 

 interesting and profitable work during the winter 

 months, and the results of the experiments in these lab- 

 oratories might be profitably applied on the farm. 



The following is a list of materials and furnishings 

 that might be useful in the farm laboratory: 



1. Work-bench and carpenter's tools. 



2. Forge and anvil, with necessary tools accom- 

 panying. 



3. Medicine case with drugs for animals; and chem- 

 icals, such as formalin, sulphuric acid, ammonia, 

 copper sulphate, lime, sulphur, lead arsenate, paris 

 green, hellebore, phosphoric acid, potash, sodium 

 nitrate, etc., etc. 



4. Tight case for various seeds. 



5. Boxes of clay, sand and humus soils. 



6. Table for general experimental work. 



7. Water supply and means of heating the room. 

 The pupils and teacher may add other materials to 



the above list, and, as a part of the work of this lesson, 

 the pupils should draw the ground floor plan of such a 

 room as described above, and indicate in their plan 



